Eee PC - Another Potential Psion replacement - Scion

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My Psion may finally meet its maker...
http://www.reghardware.com/2007/10/0...ches_minibook/...

Two weeks out of a pair of AA batteries was certainly a point in the
Psion's favour (and others -- the HPLX springs to mind).

But the phrase "and RM touted the laptop's 15s boot time" is even more
disappointing. 15 seconds may not sound like much, but compared to the
Psion it's /ages/. And that's just booting -- do you have to start up X,
KDE and all the apps after that?